Karaniya Metta Sutta karaniyamettasutta buddha kindness karaniya karaniyameththa suthraya

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‪@BuddhistInsights24‬ • #karaniyamettasutta #buddha #kindness #sermon #karaniya ##karaniyameththa #suthraya • Back ground to Karaniya Metta sutta • During the time of the Buddha, five hundred Buddhist monks received meditation instructions from the Buddha and went to reside and meditate in a forest during the three months of the rainy season. The forest was close to a village of devotees who offered to build five hundred huts for them and to provide food and other requisites during the three months. The monks began meditating earnestly each of them sitting at the foot of a tree, which made the deities (devas) occupying the trees feel uneasy and uncomfortable. Because the monks were meditating at the foot of the trees, the deities had to come down from the trees and stay on the ground. Having discovered that the monks are there not for a day or two but for a period of three months, they began making disturbances by creating frightening sights and sounds as well as distasteful odours to frighten the monks. The monks became frightened and could not concentrate on their meditation object. Some of them were so scared that they became physically ill. • The five hundred monks left the forest and went to see the Buddha to explain their plight and to say that they could not continue meditating in that forest. The Buddha then taught them the Karaniya Metta sutta and asked them to return to the same forest and to chant the sutta and to meditate on loving kindness. When they returned to the forest and practised Metta meditation as instructed by the Buddha radiating Metta, the deities lost their resentment and instead began protecting and looking after the monks. The monks were able to continue with their meditation and it is said that all five hundred of them became Arahants during the rainy retreat. • The discourse gets divided into two parts. The first detailing the standard of moral conduct required by one who wishes to attain Purity and Peace, and the second the method of practice of metta. • Contents of the Karaniya Metta sutta • Karaniya Metta sutta consists of ten verses. The contents of the first two verses and the first half of the third verse present fourteen virtues that should be cultivated and one virtue that should be avoided by the meditator who is skillful in his welfare (attha kusala) and who wishes to eventually attain the state of Peace (Nibbana). They can be described as factors contributing to cultivate a good moral base (sila) by avoiding any unwholesome actions through the body, speech and the mind. These virtues will prepare a meditator for the practice of loving kindness. The next few verses describe how loving kindness should be cultivated and practised. Then follow the verses that describe loving kindness as a technique of concentration meditation with it’s positive consequences and the last verse deals with the culmination of the practice with the development of insight and the state of Peace. • • Access from: • https://drarisworld.wordpress.com/202...

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